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APHIS Announces Funding

Opportunity for Tribes and Tribal

Organizations to Support Animal

Disease Preparedness and Response

Activities

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WASHINGTON, October 24, 2023 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA)

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will provide up to $500,000 to

Tribes and Tribal organizations to further animal disease prevention, preparedness,

and response through the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response

Program (NADPRP). This NADPRP Tribal Nations funding opportunity opens today and

closes January 19, 2024.

In July 2023, APHIS announced the availability of up to $17 million in funds for

NADPRP. While Tribes and Tribal organizations were eligible to apply for that funding

opportunity (which closed October 20, 2023), the additional $500,000 was

specifically designated for a separate funding opportunity for Tribes and Tribal

organizations for animal disease preparedness and response activities.

This is the second year this funding opportunity targeting Indian Country is

available, as APHIS seeks to continue to advance animal disease preparedness and
response through its Farm Bill animal health programs.

Eligible applicants include federally recognized Tribes, their arms and

instrumentalities, Tribal-serving organizations, and Tribal colleges and universities.

APHIS will prioritize funding to project proposals aimed at:

Delivering outreach & education on animal disease prevention, preparedness,

and response,

Increasing livestock and poultry and indigenous animal biosecurity,

Supporting training and exercises for Tribal animal agriculture sector

responders,

Developing and implementing Tribal animal disease emergency response plans,

and

Enhancing animal disease traceability for an animal disease outbreak.

The NADPRP addresses the risk of introduction and spread of high-consequence

animal pests and diseases through cooperative or interagency agreements between

APHIS and Tribes, States, livestock and indigenous animal producer organizations,

Tribal organizations, land-grant universities, and other eligible entities. This program

enhances APHIS’ animal health efforts through collaboration with animal health

partners throughout the nation. Together, APHIS and its partners carry out highvalue projects that enhance prevention, preparedness, detection, and response to

the most damaging emerging and foreign animal diseases that threaten agriculture

and food production across the United States.

The 2018 Farm Bill provided funding for these programs as part of an overall

strategy to help prevent animal pests and diseases from entering the United States

and reduce the spread and impact of potential disease incursions through advance

planning and preparedness.

The funding opportunity announcement, including application instructions and

additional information, is available on the NADPRP website. Applicants can also find

information on the on the ezFedGrants website or the Grants.gov website by

searching CFDA number 10.025 or Funding Opportunity Number USDA-APHIS-10025-

VSSP0000-24-0003. Tribes and Tribal organizations may apply for this funding

opportunity, even if they previously applied to the NADPRP funding opportunity that

closed on October 20, 2023.
APHIS’ Office of National Tribal Liaison (ONTL) in partnership with NADPRP is offering

a webinar to assist Tribal applicants with the application process. Two sessions of

the webinar, “National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program

(NADPRP) Tribal Funding Opportunity: Information for Applicants”, will be available,

held on October 25, 2023, at 2:00 pm EST and November 6, 2023, at 1:00 pm EST.

Each webinar will be recorded and posted to the NADPRP website for those unable to

attend the live sessions.

Webinar #1

Wednesday, October 25 at 2:00

2:00 PM ET / 1:00PM CT / 12:00PM MT / 11:00AM PT / 10:00AM AKT

Registration link: https://forms.office.com/g/HCp1gLW8Zd

Webinar #2

Monday, November 6

1:00 ET / 12:00PM CT / 11:00AM MT / 10:00AM PT / 9:00AM AKT

Registration link: https://forms.office.com/g/HCp1gLW8Zd

More information on these programs is available at:

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/resources/farmbill